Glossary entry

Harm visibility

Definition

How plainly a system exposes the human impact of its decisions in real time. High harm visibility combines logs, people's accounts, and alerts, so outside oversight sees past dashboards and automatic halts fire on effects on people as well as on technical anomalies.

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Related terms

Unseen harm Prospective auditability
Cite this glossary entry · v1.17.1 · updated Oct 6, 2026 · CC BY-SA 4.0

APA

Ethotechnics Institute. (2026). Harm visibility. Ethotechnics glossary. https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/harm-visibility

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Ethotechnics Institute. "Harm visibility." Ethotechnics glossary, 2026, https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/harm-visibility.

Chicago

Ethotechnics Institute. "Harm visibility." Ethotechnics glossary. Oct 6, 2026. https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/harm-visibility.

BibTeX

@misc{glossary_harm-visibility,
  title={Harm visibility},
  author={Ethotechnics Institute},
  year={2026},
  howpublished={Ethotechnics glossary},
  url={https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/harm-visibility},
  version={v1.17.1}
}

RIS

TY  - WEB
TI  - Harm visibility
AU  - Ethotechnics Institute
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  • Published: Dec 3, 2025
  • Last updated: Oct 6, 2026
  • Version: v1.17.1

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